Coalición Canaria has decided that the waiting time is over in Las Palmas capital. Under the direction of its insular secretary general, Pablo Rodríguez, the nationalist party held a strategic conclave last weekend with a clear message: the capital of Gran Canaria is not just another municipality, it is an ‘absolutely non-negotiable political objective’ and, for this purpose, the Port of Las Palmas will be key. In this context, profiles such as Beatriz Calzada, Juan José Cardona, or Betsabé Morales face the challenge of setting the agenda against the PSOE in Las Palmas.
The meeting, which gathered the top tier of public and organizational officials, served to certify a severe diagnosis about the state of the main city of the archipelago. Although the gathering focused on municipal management, the strategic background inevitably points to the Port of La Luz and Las Palmas. For the nationalists, the Port is not an isolated entity but the heart that must pump prosperity to a city that, in Rodríguez’s view, ‘deserves much more than it receives from its municipal government.’
CC’s strategy involves strengthening the Port-City connection, understanding that the competitiveness of the port facility is the guarantee for solving structural problems of the capital. The paralysis of critical projects and the lack of agile communication with the port business sector are, for the party, symptoms of an exhausted model that CC aims to replace with a ‘neighborhood and dock’ management approach, closely tied to the operational reality of the island. CC Gran Canaria has thus set its roadmap for the coming months: a meticulous coordination among its officials to consolidate a project that recovers the pride of the capital.
